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Silliman University (SU) President Dr. Betty Cernol McCann engaged Dumaguete-based media practitioners in a forum titled “Inside Silliman: Conversations with Dr. Betty Cernol McCann” on July 28, 2025, at the Silliman Assembly Hall. Organized by the Office of Media and Public Affairs (OMPA), the event highlighted key university developments, including SU’s digital transformation initiatives, micro-credentialing [...]

Silliman University (SU) faculty and students presented key studies at the 18th National Symposium on Marine Science (PAMS18), held on July 10–12, 2025, at the University of the Philippines–Cebu, addressing pressing marine science issues in the Philippines. Dr. Aileen Maypa, SU Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences (IEMS) director, presented on the challenges of protecting […]

Silliman University (SU) President Dr. Betty Cernol McCann highlighted key developments at the university during a media conference titled “Inside Silliman: Conversations with Dr. Betty Cernol McCann” on July 28, 2025, at the Silliman Assembly Hall. Organized by the Office of Media and Public Affairs (OMPA), the event gathered Dumaguete-based media practitioners for a candid […]

Two young Sillimanian athletes, Kelsy Skye B. Anub and Chloe Belisse T. Pasana, helped power Buglas Filipinas to a silver medal finish at the 2025 Kanga Cup, held from July 14 to 21, in Canberra, Australia. Anub, Grade 11, and Pasana, Grade 9, both students at SU and homegrown talents of Football Kings United FC […]

Silliman University’s Dr. Jean Cuanan-Nalam took top honors at the Emerging Scholars Forum during the four-day Annual Hymn Conference of The Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, winning Best Paper for her research on hymn translation presented on July 14, 2025, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Nalam, coordinator of the Liturgy […]

Silliman University (SU) joined forces with leading international institutions for the Albatross Recollection Project’s landmark “Workshop on Marine Genetics & Genomics in the Philippines” and accompanying “Training on Demographic Inference from Genetic Data, held on July 8-9, 2025at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu. Organized and sponsored by the Albatross Recollection Project, a collaborative […]

  The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Digital Transformation Center, located on the third floor of the Silliman University (SU)  College of Business Administration (CBA), will hold its first phase of free big data, business analytics, and AI training for the local youth and job seekers in Negros Oriental on August 4-29, 2025. This free […]

A team from Silliman University emerged as the champion of “Can You HackIT: The IBPAP Challenge,” a regional hackathon organized by the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP), held on July 15-16, 2025, at the Cebu Institute of Technology University (CIT-U) Gym. The Silliman team, Merge Conflict, bested 27 other teams from […]

Silliman University (SU), alongside St. Paul University - Dumaguete (SPUD), and Siqujor State College (SSC), co-hosted the 5th Annual Conference of the Hanseatic League of Universities (HLU), with Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) as its main host, on July 9-11, 2025, at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. Led by NORSU President and HLU President-Elect [...]

In a move that formally sealed the provisions of the June 5, 2025 Secretary of Labor and Employment (SOLE) Decision for 2025-2026, Silliman University (SU)’s Administration Panel and the Silliman University Faculty Association (SUFA) signed the Supplemental Collective Bargaining Agreement today, July 14, 2025, at SU Hall. In accordance with said provision, effective June 1, […]